-- iraq and afghanistan? i think they should make it mandatory, because it would not come up with let's wait 15 different choices and decide what is best to the extent possible, -- past. to the extent possible, it is better to draw a bright line, and they do not do that because that -- they are not sure what it should be. we have judges in good faith of giving an opening and going for it, and sometimes, as judge reinhardt says, i will do what i think is best, and there is nothing written about you adding my opinions. i write what i want. >> apparently, judge reinhardt has left out the constitutional provision where the tenure is on good behavior. [laughter] >> i generally believe, and i cannot prove this, but judges are by and large trying to follow the constitution and the laws of the united states, and i think the numbers suggest that we have more of that in the modern day than 20 or 30 years ago. why is that? a couple of things might be going on. one is the rise of electronic data bases, which makes it eas